The Week: The week's good news - January 10, 2019

Author: Confluence

Reading Time: 3 minutesTo observe positive change happening, you have to be on the lookout for something better than what’s currently happening. If you only view your situation from the perspective of how it is right now, then you’re limiting yourself and your child from experiencing greater possibilities.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis announcement comes from a President who ran his campaign on the premise that he had the business experience to lead the country and particularly the economy like a business. It’s a common line of rhetoric amongst candidates. However, in practical terms, our economy doesn’t, and can’t run like a business because it isn’t one. Under this administration, while the markets have seen growth, they have also suffered the largest single-day losses in history.

Reading Time: 4 minutesI firmly believe feminine silence is the foundation of the patriarchy. We’ve been taught to NOT speak to our desires. But here’s the thing: your desire is alchemizing, but only if you ask for what you want. Learning to ask in our relationships empowers us to ask for what we want elsewhere. Practice makes it easier.

Reading Time: 1 minuteConfluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. 16 insane things that happened in Trumpworld in just the last 48 hours (CNN)Even by President Donald Trump’s frenetic standards, the events of the last 48 hours have been insane. Major resignations! Infighting! Robert Mueller! Javanka! And much, much more. Because no one could keep track of it all, we — me and the one and only Brenna Williams — made a list. Continue Model for Gap paused to breastfeed her toddler during a shoot. The moment became the campaign. They were shooting the scene, in...

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Lisa M. Hayes – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Recently I went through a bout of feeling pretty crappy about myself. My activity levels were lower than usual for a number of reasons. My stress levels were pegging the top of the stress-o-meter. I had a serious run in with PMS. I was feeling sluggish and soft – not the good kind of soft, you know, the jiggly kind of soft. I was also feeling unusually uncomfortable. Old injuries I thought had healed kicked up again. I felt slow and...